Ceratia [1] ( lat. Ceratias ) is a family of deep-sea ray - finned fish from the order of anglerfish (Lophiiformes), whose representatives live in great depths of the Atlantic , Indian and Pacific oceans.
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 Greenland ceratium ( Cryptopsaras holboelli ). A female with a tiny male parasite. Scarecrow from the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fish have very small eyes, which probably have lost their function. The mouth looks almost vertical. In dorsal fin 4, less often 5 soft rays, in anal fin four soft rays. In front of the dorsal fin are three fleshy outgrowths formed from rays of the fins.
Dwarf males parasitize on females by sticking to them [2] . The body length of females is from 24 to 120 cm [3] .
Classification
Female Ceratias uranoscopus
3 species are distinguished in the genus [4] :
- Greenland ceratium ( Ceratias holboelli ), or Greenland deep-sea angler
- Southern Deep Sea Angler ( Ceratias tentaculatus )
- Deep Sea Stargazer ( Ceratias uranoscopus )
Notes
- ↑ Reshetnikov Yu.S. , Kotlyar A.N. , Russ T.S. , Shatunovsky M.I. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Fish. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1989 .-- S. 427. - 12,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00237-0 .
- ↑ Theodore W. Pietsch. Ceratiidae. Warty Seadevils Neopr . Tree of Life web project (2006). Date of treatment March 18, 2017.
- ↑ Ceratias in the FishBase database.
- ↑ Russian names according to the book Reshetnikov Yu.S. , Kotlyar A.N. , Russ T.S. , Shatunovsky M.I. Pyatilingual dictionary of animal names. Fish. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1989 .-- S. 427-428. - 12,500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00237-0 .